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h1. Locomotive CMS
Locomotive is a simple but powerful CMS based on liquid templates and mongodb database. At my company ("NoCoffee":http://www.nocoffee.fr), we use it for our clients when they request a simple website.
If we have to give only 5 main features to describe our application, there will be:
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* managing as many websites as you want with one application instance
* nice looking UI (see http://www.locomotiveapp.org for some screenshots)
* flexible content types
* playing smoothly with Heroku and MongoHQ
* inline editing (coming soon)
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h2. Strategy / Development status
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We already developed a fully functional prototype in Rails 2.3.2 with both active record / mongomapper and it worked quite well. We are even using it for some client websites.
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Now, our goal is to port our prototype to Rails 3 and migrate from mongomapper to mongoid. Besides, we put a lot of efforts to make it as robust as we can by writing better specs than we wrote for the prototype at first.
h2. Gems
Here is a short list of main gems used in the application.
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* Rails 3 RC
* Mongoid 2.0.0.beta 16 (with MongoDB 1.6)
* Liquid
* Devise
* Carrierwave
* Haml
h2. Installation
See the "official website":http://www.locomotiveapp.org
h2. Team
* Developers: "Didier Lafforgue":http://www.nocoffee.fr, "Jacques Crocker":http://www.railsjedi.com
* UI Designer: "Sacha Greif":http://www.sachagreif.com
h2. Credits
"Rodrigo Alvarez":http://blog.codecaster.es/ for his plugin named Congo which gave us a good starting point and for his availability for (very late) tech discussions.
"Emmanuel Grard":http://www.grardesign.com designed the awesome locomotive illustration in the LocomotiveApp.org landing page.
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h2. Contact
Feel free to contact me at didier at nocoffee dot fr.
Copyright (c) 2010 NoCoffee, released under the MIT license